Principal - Curry Spa Consulting, Inc.

Lynn Curry, CMC, ISHC, has been a spa consultant since 1997 and provides financial feasibility, design development, creative direction and pre-opening consulting services to luxury and upscale resorts worldwide. In 2011, she founded Curry Spa Consulting, a certified women-owned business, which has rapidly grown into a global spa consulting firm with clients in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Lynn is a proud member of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants (the leading source of global hospitality industry expertise) and a Certified Management Consultant™ (CMC®) with the Institute of Management Consultants (an ISO/IEC 17024 certification body).

Professional projects in Lynn's portfolio include properties that have been featured on the 'best of' lists of Travel & Leisure, New York Times and other industry publications. His portfolio includes Montage Laguna; Island Spa Catalina; The Ritz-Carlton Spas at Paradise Valley, Bachelor Gulch, Dove Mountain and Laguna Beach; The Four Seasons Spas at Cabo Del Sol, Westlake Village, Dubai, Vail and Punta Mita; Rosewood Resort Spas at Sand Hill and Mayakoba; and Hard Rock Spas in Tampa, Hollywood and Atlantic City. Lynn's professional portfolio also includes luxury private clubs, boutiques and casino spas.

After serving as a tourism development manager providing destination sales services for the Anaheim Visitor and Convention Bureau, Lynn's career took her to work in the sales department at Hyatt Resorts Hawaii as a group sales manager, and then to the Grand Wailea Resort, where she opened the renowned resort in both the hotel's sales and marketing department and in the management of the Grand Spa. She assisted in the opening of several Hyatt Resorts, later becoming the spa director at the Hyatt Regency in Fort Lauderdale and assisting the owner and operator group at other resorts.

Lynn has been a board member of the GSN Planet (Green Spa Network), a BLLA task force member, a member of the Questex Wellness advisory board and a lecturer at the Gerson Lehrman Councils. She is a very active public speaker, panelist and educator. She currently serves on the spa advisory task force of the Global Wellness Institute, was a board member of Glen Ivy Hot Springs and provides training to various industry development teams, vendors and suppliers on the inner workings of the spa and wellness industry.